so what you're saying I can just write an X
application and plug that into myth some how?
How does one set a screensaver app that is activated
from an idle myth menu?
--- David Morris <mythtv at morrisonthenet.com> wrote:
> But what constitutes burn-in is a pixel left in an
> unchanged state for
> an extended period. It doesn't have to be in a
> random state, or a state
> different than an adjacent pixel, like in static --
> it just needs to
> change. So if you, say, changed the background
> color at regular
> intervals that would change every pixel on the
> screen. To make it less
> jarring you could use muted colors and fade/gradient
> them in. To me
> that would be the most effective and easiest to
> achieve result -- every
> pixel would change at the same time for the same
> length of time and
> therefore be more uniform in their "wear" pattern.
> Seeing random
> channel changing would be more disruptive (to me)
> than seeing blank
> color transitions.
>> Just a thought...
>> Jason H wrote:
>> >Because screensavers exhibit patterns. They are
> loops.
> >It varies per screensaver, but there are ones that
> are
> >never touch the corners(window's mystify, bouble -
> >anything that bounces on the edges are
> statistically
> >more likely to wear the middle and seldom venture
> into
> >the corners)
> >
> >The thing we are going to go for is no pattern.
> Static
> >is best, but hard to come by. Real TV samples
> switched
> >regularly is the next best. The number of channels
> >(70+) provides a nice long rotation cycle and
> >sufficiently varied data.
> >
> >
> >--- Dan Wilga <dwilga at mtholyoke.edu> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >>At 9:30 PM -0700 6/19/05, Andy Alsup wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>>If your plasma has a RF tuner, just tune it to a
> >>>
> >>>
> >>non-existant channel
> >>
> >>
> >>>with snow for burn-in. As long as the image is
> >>>
> >>>
> >>changing it doesn't
> >>
> >>
> >>>really matter where it comes from.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>Or, since you're probably running X anyway, why
> not
> >>just turn the
> >>screensaver on with something non-blank? Then all
> >>you have to do is
> >>remember to leave the TV on for the next 41 days.
> >>
> >>--
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